Claude Anshin Thomas

Buddhist monk Claude Anshin Thomas is the author of At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey From War to Peace. I've mentioned the title once or twice, and, seeing a piece in the the Ann Arbor News about his speaking engagements in Ann Arbor, MI, gives me a good excuse to mention him again. As the war continues, as we experience the unspoken fear in the body politic, as anger chases us further into our corners, his memoir of war (on the battlefield, in the home, within ourselves ...) is well worth reading. If you're in Ann Arbor, he'll be at Shaman Drum Bookshop on Tuesday. (Such a great store.....)